Collections included in the project

Within the framework of the “Jagiellonian Digital Library” project, the items belonging
to the National Library Resources (NZB) will be secured, preserved and digitised. The
National Library Resources are constituted by collections of libraries of extraordinary
value and significance for the national heritage, thus being subject to special protection.
Although the notion was coined in the 1970s, it was started being considered as a legal
category as late as in the Libraries Act of 27 June 1997. In 1998, the Ordinance of the
Minister of Culture and the Arts on the establishment of the list of libraries whose
collections constitute the National Library Resources, determining the organisation
of these resources and rules and scope of its particular protection was issued. An annex
to this ordinance is constituted by the list of libraries whose collections are entirely
or partly included in the National Library Resources – the Jagiellonian Library is
listed there. Apart from the above, §5 (4) of the ordinance stipulates that a detailed
protection of the resources consists in the preservation of the resources on other carriers.

Okólnik no. 2 published by the Director of the Jagiellonian Library on November 8, 2000
stipulates that the National Library Resources at the Jagiellonian Library is constituted by:

collection of manuscripts: in its entirety,

collection of old prints: in its entirety,

collections of drawings, engravings, bookplates, photographs: in its entirety,

collection of prints from the 19th and 20th century:

prints from the 19th and first half of the 20th century (since 1945): non-serial prints, series, periodicals, leaflets: in its entirety,

Polish prints from the years 1945-1968: non-serial prints, series, periodicals, social life documents, company literature, standards and patents: in its entirety,

dedicated resources of Polish prints published since 1969: non-serial prints, series, periodicals, social life documents, company literature, standards and patents,

dedicated collection of valuable and rare prints “rara”,

dedicated collection of the so-called “underground” documents,

foreign Poland-related documents published post 1945,

collection of Polish audiovisual and electronic documents created since 1997.

From a rich collection of periodicals, the titles which should be copied and preserved in an electronic form in the first instance have been selected. First of all, we have to protect the most destroyed, and at the same time the most frequently read items, as well as unique items across the country. The list of collections covered with the project includes the following elements of the National Library Resources:

No.

Title

Years

Volumes

1.

„Dziennik Polski” (Lviv)

1869–1905

49

2.

„Gazeta Lwowska” (Lviv)

1811–1939

235

3.

„Gazeta Narodowa” (Lviv)

1863–1915

58

4.

„Głos Narodu” (Krakow)

1893–1927

93

5.

„Nowa Reforma” (Krakow)

1882–1928

84

6.

„Nowości Ilustrowane” (Krakow)

1904–1925

22

7.

„Słowo Polskie” (Lviv)

1895–1934

78

8.

„Sprawozdania Stenograficzne Sejmu Galicyjskiego” (Lviv)

1861–1914

67

9.

„Sprawozdania Stenograficzne Sejmu Galicyjskiego. Protokoły” (Lviv)

1861–1914

39

10.

„Sprawozdania Stenograficzne Sejmu Galicyjskiego. Alegata” (Lviv)

1865–1918

119

11.

Unique in Poland issues of periodicals of format IV and V (215 titles)

XIX i 1. poł. XX wieku

320

12.

Periodicals from the Division of Rare Publications

XIX i 1. poł. XX wieku

58

13.

Books from the Division of Rare Publications and 19th-century books

XIX i 1. poł. XX wieku

437

14.

Old Prints

XV–XVIII w.

462

15.

Manuscripts

XIII–XX w.

438

16.

Music Collection

XVI–XX w.

132

17.

Cartography

XVII–XX w.

31

18.

Engravings

XIV–XX w.

144

Total: 1222 volumes of periodicals and 1644 volumes of books and special collection items.

The continuation of the Jagiellonian Digital Library project is the project entitled
Safe and comprehensive making the Jagiellonian University resources available on the Internet.
Stage I, co-financed by the European Union within the framework of the Małopolska Regional
Operational Programme 2007-2013, whose implementation started on October 1, 2010 and will continue
for three years. Within the framework of the project, the digitisation will cover collections
from the Jagiellonian Library, Law Faculty Library, Library and Music Library of the Institute
of Musicology of UJ.